Current Affairs for Olympiad Exams

Preparing for Current Affairs is a continuous process. It's not something for which one can prepare by reading a book for a few days before the exam. Olympiad Success has tried to capture highlights of 2019 for students preparing for G.K. Olympiad exams organized by Science Olympiad Foundation (IGKO), Silver Zone (SKGKO), Eduheal (IGO) and Humming Bird (HGO). If you have any comments, please use 'Contact Us' form to send us your feedback.

Government has doubled import duties on 328 textile products to 20% from existing rate of 10% under Section 159 of the Customs Act, 1962. Earlier in July 2018, Government had doubled import duty on over 50 textile products — including jackets, suits and carpets to 20%

Researcher from Mexico has discovered way to turn cactus leaves into non toxic and biodegradable material with similar properties to plastic

Chinese telecom giant Huawei launched its own operating system called HarmonyOS or HongMeng in Chinese

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched a year-long programmes and functions from 12 August 2019 to commemorate birth centenary of of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, founder and eminent space scientist of ISRO

Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, have developed process of synthesizing bone implant materials from eggshells

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has finalized India’s first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL)

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission took first high-resolution measurements of an interplanetary shock

Russia launched life-size humanoid robot called Fedor to International Space Station (ISS)

Sudan's pro-democracy movement signed a power-sharing agreement with the ruling military council on Sunday aimed at paving the way for a transition to civilian rule following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched UPI 2.0, an upgraded and renwed version of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) by adding four new features to make it attractive and safer for users

Trump says he wants stronger gun checks but gives no details

Indian rupee for first time in history plunged to record low of Rs. 70.07 against US dollar on 14 August 2018

Fertiliser major IFFCO has entered into joint venture with Congelados De Navarra to set up food processing plant at Ludhiana in Punjab with an investment of Rs 325 crore

Swara Bhasker Opens Production House with Brother, Names it Kahaaniwaaley

Rakesh Asthana has been appointed as the new Director General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security

Twitter announced that it found a bug that exposed private tweets, and those tweets may have been able to be read for years. Affected users, most of whom use the Android app, have been notified by Twitter

Boman Irani Joins Vivek Oberoi's PM Narendra Modi Biopic

The 14th edition of its annual Global Risk Report, 2019 is released by World Economic Forum

The super blood wolf moon, a rare lunar eclipse, could be seen. Many people throughout the world enjoyed a beautiful, full lunar eclipse

The 7th ASEAN-India Tourism Ministers meeting was held in Vietnam

UNESCO has named Rio de Janeiro as the World Capital of Architecture for 2020

One District One Product' Summit inaugurated by the President of India, Mr. Shri Ram Nath Kovind

India obtained the 96th rank at the United Nations E-Government Index recently.

The rank of Indian men's hockey team in the latest FIH latest ranking 2018 was 5th!

The State of Telangana is going to setup a state of the art "B-Hub" for Biotech and Bio-Pharma sector

July, 2018

The renowned vocalist, Aruna Sairam was chosen for the 2018 Sangita Kalanidhi Award by the Music Academy, Madras.

The biennial multi-national large force employment warfare exercise, Pitch Black was conducted by the Royal Australian Air Force from 24 Jul 18 to 18 Aug 18 in which the Indian Air Force was participating for the first time.

Pakistan cricket player, Fakhar Zaman, became the quickest in history to score 1000 runs (in 18 matches) in one-day internationals breaking the record of Vivian Richards who scored it 21 matches.

The Australian captain, Aaron Finch broke his own record of the highest individual score of 158 runs in T20i by scoring 172 runs against Zimbabwe.

Indian Kabaddi Team won the 2018 Dubai Kabaddi Masters' title by defeating Iran in the finals.

The new 100 Rupee Note was announced by the Govt. during July 2018. The Note is Lavender in colour with the Motif of Rani KI Vav

National Doctors Day was celebrated on 1st July 2018 across the globe.

GDP of the Top 10 countries in 2017 was announced by the World Bank. USA, China and Japan were on the top of the list and India was ranked 6th.

The 3rd BRICs Film Festival was held in Durban South Africa this July. Newton won the Best Picture Award at the event

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh is where UNESCO is setting up Design University for Gaming in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board

The 59th International Mathematical Olympiad held in Cluj Napoca, Romania from July 4 to 14 at which India won 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.

Wimbeldon 2018 were held in July of this year. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) won the Men's Singles Cup and Angelique Kerber (Germany) won the Women's Singles Cup

June, 2018

The Indian cricketer, Mithali Raj became the first from the country to cross 2000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals (while playing against Sri Lanka in Asia Cup 2018)

Gandhinagar,Gujarat was where the world's first International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics was launched jointly by International Committee of Red Cross and Gujarat Forensic Science University.

The world's largest multilateral naval exercise, RIMPAC involving 26 countries (including India) was conducted in the western Pacific Ocean.

Jharkhand State has decided to completely prohibit polythene from 31 July 2018.

The import of Oxytocin has been banned by the Govt of India wef 01 July 2018.

The prominent jurist and politician, Giuseppe Conte was appointed the new Prime Minister of Italy in June 2018

The United States territory in the Pacific Ocean in which the joint naval exercise Malabar 2018 by the Navies of India, US and Japan was scheduled to be held in June 2018

Pallavi Durua from Koraput district of Odisha was crowned the first Tribal Queen of India in a beauty pageant titled Adi Rani 2018 in Bhubaneshwar.

The 19th IIFA Awards were announced on 24th June 2018 in Bangkok. Tumhari Sulu won the Best Picture, Irrfan Khan (For Hindi Medium) won the Best Actor Award and Late Sridevi (For Mom) won the Best Actress Award.

Norman is the name of the psycopath artificial intelligence (AI) developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) based on a community on Reddit.

The Bangladesh Cricket team won their maiden Women's Asia Cup T20 tournament defeating India in the finals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The England Cricket Team set a new record of the highest ODI score by scoring 481 for 6 against Australia at Nottingham.

The island on which India and Seychelles have agreed to jointly develop a naval base is known as Assumption Island.

The countries, Mexico, Canada and USA won the bid to hold the 2026 FIFA World Cup jointly.

The Nistar Operation was launched by the Indian Navy to evacuate 38 Indian nationals stranded on the Yemeni island of Socotra in the aftermath of cyclone Mekenu.

Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar is the venue of the 106th Indian Science Congress to be held from 03 Jan to 07 Jan 2019 with the theme 'Future India: Science and Technology'.

The oldest centre of Yoga, Yoga Institute, Mumbai was established by Shri Yogendra has been awarded the Prime Minister's Award for outstanding contribution for promotion and development of Yoga for the year 2018 in the Organisation category.

The venue of the 3rd annual meeting of Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank held from 25 to 26 June 2018 was Mumbai.

World Environment Day was celebrated on 05 June 2018.

The Government decided to celebrate July 1 as 'GST Day'.

World Blood Donor Day was celebrated on 14 June 2018

The railway station in Uttar Pradesh, Mughalsarai was renamed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar Junction.

Tajikistan was decided as the venue of high-level Conference on “International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” from 20 to 21 June 2018.

The crowdsourcing app, Neighbourly was launched by Google to help people find local answers in their neighborhood.

French Open 2018 was conducted in June of this year. Rafael Nadal(Spain) bagged the Men's Singles title and Simona Halep(Romania) bagged the Women's Singles title.

The mobile app, ReUnite was launched by Shri Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India.

The mobile app, Rail Madad was launched by Ministry of Railways to expedite and streamline passenger grievance redressal.

The Indian cricketer, Mithali Raj became the first from the country to cross 2000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals (while playing against Sri Lanka in Asia Cup 2018)

Gandhinagar,Gujarat was where the world's first International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics was launched jointly by International Committee of Red Cross and Gujarat Forensic Science University.

The world's largest multilateral naval exercise, RIMPAC involving 26 countries (including India) was conducted in the western Pacific Ocean.

Jharkhand State has decided to completely prohibit polythene from 31 July 2018.

The import of Oxytocin has been banned by the Govt of India wef 01 July 2018.

The prominent jurist and politician, Giuseppe Conte was appointed the new Prime Minister of Italy in June 2018

The United States territory in the Pacific Ocean in which the joint naval exercise Malabar 2018 by the Navies of India, US and Japan was scheduled to be held in June 2018

Pallavi Durua from Koraput district of Odisha was crowned the first Tribal Queen of India in a beauty pageant titled Adi Rani 2018 in Bhubaneshwar.

The 19th IIFA Awards were announced on 24th June 2018 in Bangkok. Tumhari Sulu won the Best Picture, Irrfan Khan (For Hindi Medium) won the Best Actor Award and Late Sridevi (For Mom) won the Best Actress Award.

Norman is the name of the psycopath artificial intelligence (AI) developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) based on a community on Reddit.

The Bangladesh Cricket team won their maiden Women's Asia Cup T20 tournament defeating India in the finals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The England Cricket Team set a new record of the highest ODI score by scoring 481 for 6 against Australia at Nottingham.

The island on which India and Seychelles have agreed to jointly develop a naval base is known as Assumption Island.

The countries, Mexico, Canada and USA won the bid to hold the 2026 FIFA World Cup jointly.

The Nistar Operation was launched by the Indian Navy to evacuate 38 Indian nationals stranded on the Yemeni island of Socotra in the aftermath of cyclone Mekenu.

Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar is the venue of the 106th Indian Science Congress to be held from 03 Jan to 07 Jan 2019 with the theme 'Future India: Science and Technology'.

The oldest centre of Yoga, Yoga Institute, Mumbai was established by Shri Yogendra has been awarded the Prime Minister's Award for outstanding contribution for promotion and development of Yoga for the year 2018 in the Organisation category.

The venue of the 3rd annual meeting of Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank held from 25 to 26 June 2018 was Mumbai.

World Environment Day was celebrated on 05 June 2018.

The Government decided to celebrate July 1 as 'GST Day'.

World Blood Donor Day was celebrated on 14 June 2018

The railway station in Uttar Pradesh, Mughalsarai was renamed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar Junction.

Tajikistan was decided as the venue of high-level Conference on “International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” from 20 to 21 June 2018.

The crowdsourcing app, Neighbourly was launched by Google to help people find local answers in their neighborhood.

French Open 2018 was conducted in June of this year. Rafael Nadal(Spain) bagged the Men's Singles title and Simona Halep(Romania) bagged the Women's Singles title.

The mobile app, ReUnite was launched by Shri Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India.

The mobile app, Rail Madad was launched by Ministry of Railways to expedite and streamline passenger grievance redressal.

May, 2018

Setting up of India's first central sports university has been approved by the Union Cabinet in Manipur

Sridevi was the former actress who was conferred with the BRICS Business Forum Leadership Award for lifetime achievement in Indian cinema.

Pithoragarh, is the place in Uttarakhand where India and Nepal are conducting 13th edition of joint military exercise Surya Kiran XIII

Olga Tokarczuk was the Polish writer who was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her book 'Flights'

The intellectual property mascot, IP Nani, was launched by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to create awareness about intellectual property crimes.

The integrated Scheme for school education, SamagraShiksha is extending support to States from pre-school to senior secondary levels launched by the Central Govt for the first time in New Delhi

The South African cricketer and former Captain, AB de Villiers has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket with immediate effect.

The commonly used acronym AYUSH has been adopted by the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology to mean "Traditional and non-conventional system of health care and healing which include Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeoeopathy.

Muhammad Yunus is The Nobel laureate from Bangladesh who was awarded the 11th Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Humanatarian Award 2018

Asha Bhosle is the veteran singer who was awarded the PC Chandra Puraskar by PC Chandra Jewellers

Japan has won the Uber Cup badminton tournament (women's) for the first time after 1981 defeating Thailand in the finals.

Harimau Shakti 2018 is the first ever joint military exercise by the armies of India and Malaysia conducted at Wardieburn Camp in Setapak, Malaysia